Maybe you know the story of Alice in Wonderland. In her dream Alice was shaking an ugly queen but when she woke up she realized that she wasn’t holding the queen but her kitten.
Exercise: Try to draw something else that Alice holds while she is dreaming or when she’s waking up.
The assisting lines in the hands are helpful here. If the hands are holding something bigger, draw the arms a little further apart.
You can even hold scary or dirty things in a drawing. This green monster head is now a bit defenseless and helpless.